Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 2 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 4 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 5 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 6 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 7 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 8 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 9 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 10 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 11 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 12 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 13 | Nicholson 's former colleague , David Price , joined him at the new Locksfields factory , where they began a detailed study of the conditions for making magenta dye . |
| 14 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 15 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |
| 16 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 18 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 19 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 20 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 21 | Juliet even surprised herself at the bitter words spilling over . |
| 22 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 23 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 24 | Tabitha flung herself at the hard bunk with an angry sigh . |
| 25 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 26 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 27 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 28 | Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette . |
| 29 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 30 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |